appear to be borne out by photographs from the white house bathroom. tonight with the context, the international trade expert rebecca harding, and former adviser to president george w bush ron christie. hello, welcome to the programme. president biden is defying expectations, and earning a reputation as a president who gets things done. despite the toxic nature of washington politics or maybe because of it senate democrats have been working through the summer to bring about an impressive list of achievements and a lot of that has come with the support of republicans. first came the pandemic relief $1.9 trillion, otherswise known as the american rescue plan. then in november the infrastructure bill. injune the first bipartisan legislation in decades on gun safety. then came the chips act, to strengthen semiconductor manufacturing. then new health care benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. a bipartian agreement on nato expansion admitting finland
have gotten one story after another about donald trump s let s say problematic handling of white house records. it started with a revelation on monday that the national archives at retrieve 15 boxes of documents that trump dashed at mar-a-lago. the washington post later reported that those boxes included classified material, some marked as top secret. we learned that trump had a habit of shredding documents that had to be taped back together. this week we learned he had bags filled with documents for burning in burn bags. white house record staff had to reportedly search these burned bags to find material that needed to be preserved. of course, there is an amazing bit of reporting about toilets. when trump was in office, the staff in the residence, i guess, would find wads of printed paper clogging the toilet in the residence. this led them to believe that trump had been literally trying to flush documents. now, we have more on that.
mar-a-lago, or how they got there in the first place. trump was very secretive about the packing a boxes and did not let other aides, including some of his most senior advisers look at them. according to people close to him. the house oversight committee is investigating trump s handling of official records. then there s this development, she writes this, quote, staff in the white house residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet. when engineers went into go and see what was happening, there are clumped up lots of paper apparently notes or documents, it s not clear exactly what it was, it s not clear why it was happening, but they believe the former president was putting stuff in the toilet and my understanding is it wasn t an isolated in some incident. and a statement, trump
in the context of a broader investigation into the former president surrounding the attempt to overlook the election and finally, the classified information issue, of course, classified information mishandling is a crime. doj takes that very seriously. if there is classified information involved, i would expect doj to take a look at that but there are some problems with that as well. yeah, definitely. so the other bizarre aspect of it, in an upcoming book coming up by maggie haberman reporting from time to time, trump residence staff found wads of printed paper clogging a toilet. how does that add to this discussion? well, it s another instance, if it s proven to be accurate, of destruction of information. violation of presidential record act, one of it ending up in the pipe is it s hard to tell what it was or if it s official records subject to the act or
believed that these voting machines needed to be seized to be protected so they could prove fraud. these people are true believers and i have to give credit to my colleagues emma brown and john swain who did the heavy lifting on this pretty bonkers story. giuliani did go to law school, right? he did actually he was a lawyer at one point, a functioning mayor. willie geist, jump in. peter baker, we are just getting in the last few minutes as this conversation goes on an excerpt from maggie haberman, your colleague usa new book. it is not coming out in the fall but it gets to this. i will read what axios printed this morning. while president trump was in the office staff periodically discovered wads of paper clogging toilets in the white house. most believed the president had been flushing documents down his toilet. your thoughts. first of all, everything